Seoul

See also: Séoul

English

Etymology

French Séoul, which is from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”). Note that it predates the standard romanization Seoul in Korean.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səʊl/
(General American) enPR: sōl, IPA^(key): /soʊl/
audio (GA) (file)
Rhymes: -əʊl
Homophones: sole, soul, sowl

Proper noun

Seoul

The capital city of South Korea.

Derived terms

Seoulite

Synonyms

Translations

capital of South Korea

Afrikaans: Seoel
Albanian: Seoul m, Seuli m
Amharic: ሴኡል m (seʾul), ሶል m (sol)
Arabic: سِيئُول‎ f (sīʾūl), سِيُول‎ f (siyūl), سُول‎ f (sōl)
Armenian: Սեուլ (Seul)
Assamese: ছিউল (siul)
Azerbaijani: Seul
Basque: Seul (eu)
Belarusian: Сеу́л m (Sjeúl), Сэу́л m (Seúl)
Bengali: সিওল (siol), সউল (sôul)
Bulgarian: Сеу́л m (Seúl)
Burmese: ဆီယူ (hciyu)
Catalan: Seül
Chinese:
Cantonese: 首爾, 首尔 (sau² ji⁵), 漢城, 汉城 (hon³ sing⁴)

Hakka: 首爾, 首尔 (Sú-ngì), 漢城, 汉城 (Hon-sàng)

Mandarin: 首爾 (zh), 首尔 (zh) (Shǒu’ěr), 漢城 (zh), 汉城 (zh) (Hànchéng)

Min Dong: 首爾, 首尔 (Siū-ī), 漢城, 汉城 (Háng-siàng)

Min Nan: 首爾, 首尔 (Siú-ní, Siú-jíⁿ), 漢城, 汉城 (Hàn-siâⁿ)

Wu: 首爾, 首尔 (seu er), 漢城, 汉城 (hoe zen)
Czech: Soul (cs) m
Danish: Seoul (da) n
Dutch: Seoel (nl) n, Seoul n
Esperanto: Seulo (eo)
Estonian: Sŏul (et), Soul (et)
Finnish: Soul (fi)
French: Séoul (fr) f
Gagauz: Seul
Galician: Seúl f
Georgian: სეული (seuli)
German: Seoul (de) n, (rare) Söul n, Soul (de) n
Greek: Σεούλ (el) f (Seoúl)
Hebrew: סיאול‎ m, סֶאוּל‎ m (si'úl)
Hindi: सिऊल m (siūl), सियूल m (siyūl), सियोल m (siyol)
Hungarian: Szöul (hu)
Icelandic: Seúl n
Indonesian: Seoul
Irish: Súl m
Italian: Seul (it) f, Seoul f
Jamaican Creole: Siol
Japanese: ソウル (ja) (Souru), 京城 (けいじょう, Keijō), (obsolete) 漢城 (かんじょう, Kanjō)
Kabiyé: Sewuuli
Kabyle: Seyul
Kannada: ಸೌಲ್ (saul)
Kashubian: Seul m
Kazakh: Сеул (Sewl)
Khmer: សេអ៊ូល (km) (seeʾuul)
Korean: 서울 (Seoul)
Kurdish: Sêûl
Central Kurdish: سێئول‎ (sêûl), سیئۆل‎ (siol)
Kyrgyz: Сеул (Seul)
Lao: ເຊອູນ (sē ’ūn)
Latin: (New Latin) Seulum n
Latvian: Seula f

Limburgish: Seoel n
Lingala: Sɔul, Seoul
Lithuanian: Seulas m
Malay: Seoul
Malayalam: സോൾ (sōḷ)
Maltese: Seul m
Marathi: सोल n (sol)
Mongolian: Сөүл (Söül)
Nahuatl: Seul
Navajo: Sééʼool
Nepali: सिउल (siula), सोल (sola)
Northern Luri: سئوٙل‎ (seyūl)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Seoul n
Occitan: Seol m
Pashto: سېول‎ (seūl)
Persian: سئول‎ (se'ul)
Pitcairn-Norfolk: Soel
Polish: Seul (pl) m
Portuguese: Seul f
Punjabi: ਸਿਓਲ m (siol)
Quechua: Siyul, Seul
Romanian: Seul (ro) n
Russian: Сеу́л (ru) m (Seúl)
Rusyn: Соул m (Soul)
Samogitian: Seuls m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Сеул m

Roman: Seul m
Sindhi: سيول‎ (siyūl)
Sinhalese: සෝල් (sōl)
Slovak: Soul m
Slovene: Seul m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: Soul m

Upper Sorbian: Seoul m
Spanish: Seúl (es) m
Swedish: Söul (sv) n, Seoul (sv) n
Tagalog: Seúl, Seoul, Seyúl, Seyol
Tajik: Сеул (Seul)
Tamil: சியோல் (ciyōl)
Thai: โซล (th) (sool), (obsolete) เซอูล
Tibetan: སེ་ཨུལ། (se ul), སེ་ཨུལ་ (se ul)
Tok Pisin: Sol
Turkish: Seul
Turkmen: Seul
Ukrainian: Сеу́л m (Seúl)
Urdu: سیئول‎ m (siyūl), سیول‎ m (seūl), سؤل‎ m (sawūl)
Uyghur: سېئول‎ (së'ol)
Uzbek: Seul
Vietnamese: Xơ-un, Xê-un, Hán Thành
West Frisian: Seoel, Seoul
Yiddish: סעאָל‎ n (seol)
Zhuang: Soujwj

Anagrams

Eolus, Soule, loues, louse, oules, ousel, soule

Danish

Proper noun

Seoul

Seoul (the capital of South Korea)

Dutch

Proper noun

Seoul n

Alternative spelling of Seoel

German

Alternative forms

Söul, Soul (both rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 서울 (Seoul, literally “capital city”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /seˈuːl/, /sɔʊ̯l/, /soːl/, /zeˈuːl/, /zɔʊ̯l/, /zoːl/
Rhymes: -uːl, -ɔʊ̯l, -oːl
Hyphenation: Se‧oul

Proper noun

Seoul n (genitive Seouls or Seoul)

Seoul (the capital city of South Korea)

Italian

Proper noun

Seoul f

Alternative spelling of Seul

Swedish

Proper noun

Seoul n (genitive Seouls)

Alternative spelling of Söul

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